Morrison sucked too. This team hasn't had a decent run defense in years. I don't remember Morrison's teams not getting gashed to pieces on the run either. So give it a rest.
Just because McClain sucked doesn't shine any better light on Kirk, and if the guy cared as much about football as he did about his post football career in broadcasting that is undoubtedly to follow, maybe the Raiders would have been better for it.

Or maybe, just maybe, it is exactly moves like this cutting loose garbage when it plays lazy and mouths off, that the team has been lacking all these years in the first place. Scholarship. Kirk was on one too, doesn't matter how nice the guy was. His play was subpar. If everything else goes wrong forever, at least McKenzie and Allen gave us that finally. No more free rides to nowhere "playing" for Oakland.

Uhhh, because he played the run like garbage, and after his one good year with 6 INTs he ceased to make any plays of any kind for 2 years to follow? Noone forced him to disappear on the field, he did. Another mediocre player hyped well above his ability by Raider fans. The Jacoby Ford of linebacking.

Uhhh, because he played the run like garbage, and after his one good year with 6 INTs he ceased to make any plays of any kind for 2 years to follow? Noone forced him to disappear on the field, he did. Another mediocre player hyped well above his ability by Raider fans. The Jacoby Ford of linebacking.

what we lack now is tackles for loss. howard led the team in tackles for loss 2 years in a row after the 6 int year before he was phased out. ford of linebacking? who is ford? he never plays. howard never missed a game iirc. then he left and had a good year with the bengals.

what linebacker of ours in the last decade has played the run or pass better than howard?_________________

Uhhh, because he played the run like garbage, and after his one good year with 6 INTs he ceased to make any plays of any kind for 2 years to follow? Noone forced him to disappear on the field, he did. Another mediocre player hyped well above his ability by Raider fans. The Jacoby Ford of linebacking.

what we lack now is tackles for loss. howard led the team in tackles for loss 2 years in a row after the 6 int year before he was phased out. ford of linebacking? who is ford? he never plays. howard never missed a game iirc. then he left and had a good year with the bengals.

what linebacker of ours in the last decade has played the run or pass better than howard?

Jacoby Ford of linebacking as in - overhyped player still getting overrated by Raider fans because of one good statistical year very far in the rear view mirror.

Yeah, oh I remember the TFLs. Fist pumping his TFL in the 3rd quarter while the team is down 20 points. Remember those real good. Too bad none of those were ever impact plays at any important point of a game. Another me player as far as I can tell. Glad he's gone, Morrison, McClain, praying for the release of Kelly, please come soon Santa. All I want for Christmas is a house cleaning.

silver_surfer, This is clear trolling and you get another warning. We don't condone creating "I told you so" threads aimed at other members. Learn to create threads more constructively. This could have easily been made into a comparison thread posed with a constructive question. But when you fashion it as a vengeance thread indirectly attacking forum members because you think they were wrong.... it becomes trolling._________________Bah-Weep-Granah-Weep-Nini-Bong
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Also, my short-term memory is not as sharp as it used to be.